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The avian meat situation is completely annoying right now. It makes is neigh impossible to try running a business based on enhancements.

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Cry4Dawn wrote:

Avian meat is the lowest resource you can skin from a monster of any resource. I think 30 is the max you can get at any given time. It would be nice if we could get like 75 meat like you do from Baz Nitches and every other normal monster.. What can we do to get this fixed and make it worth hunting meat????

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Well, for one thing, most creatures that drop avian meat are a lot weaker than anything else. That seems to equate to less meat pretty easily. Rather than modifiying the amount of meat dropped by these creatures, I'd like to see the addition of some larger, meaner creatures that drop larger amounts of avian meat.

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BeaverDive wrote:

I've never had a problem harvesting avian meat before. I go to naboo, do Kaduu missions for an hour or two, and I usually end up with about 1500 units of good quality meat.

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That's great but, sooner or later, you're going to run into a spell in which Naboo avian meat stinks. Right now, on Flurry, the best avian meat around is on Talus. Try harvesting 7k units (enough for a full crate of packs) killing rasps and fynocks, which drop between 3 and 15 units of meat each.

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BeaverDive wrote:

I've never had a problem harvesting avian meat before. I go to naboo, do Kaduu missions for an hour or two, and I usually end up with about 1500 units of good quality meat.

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2 hrs for 1500 units of meat is laughable. You killed so many monsters in those 2 hrs your bored to death!

Annoying Yes, do I want it changed No.

Making it easier to get this resourceWILL result in an increase in the supply of enhance packs, making themmore readily avaliable to everyone and their dog. The price of crafted enhance packs (that some of us sell) will drop, and we would also probably see a drop in the price of buffs applied.

The sarcity of the resource keeps the price of enhance packs up, and it gives ranger/scouts and newbies with novice scout a market for thisresource. If it is too expensive to buy on your server, then harvest i yourself and/or pass these costs on to your customers. Work within the system as it is and enjoy the challenges of the game. There are many many ways to get this stuff, I telled a guy in Theed last night, he was killing Nunna's for XP, and I telled him "I hope you are harvesting that". He replied "I felt that picking up Novice Scout was not worth thepoints". I replied back "At 50cpu, I dont thing so".

The guy had NO idea that there was such a demand for the stuff. Educate the masses.. it helps.

Personally I like it when things are a little hard and I am forced to be creative in how I gather my resources ie, offer to buy it from others, get others to hunt for me, drop harvesters etc.. I pay up to 25cpu MAX and while other pay more, I do manage to get a nice neat little pile of meat.

So no increasing meat drops for birds is not the way to go, no sense in messing with things IMO. Personally I would like to see us get animal harvesting and/or surveying skills- but again that's just me.

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Sistere wrote:

Annoying Yes, do I want it changed No.

Making it easier to get this resourceWILL result in an increase in the supply of enhance packs, making themmore readily avaliable to everyone and their dog. The price of crafted enhance packs (that some of us sell) will drop, and we would also probably see a drop in the price of buffs applied.

The sarcity of the resource keeps the price of enhance packs up, and it gives ranger/scouts and newbies with novice scout a market for thisresource. If it is too expensive to buy on your server, then harvest i yourself and/or pass these costs on to your customers. Work within the system as it is and enjoy the challenges of the game. There are many many ways to get this stuff, I telled a guy in Theed last night, he was killing Nunna's for XP, and I telled him "I hope you are harvesting that". He replied "I felt that picking up Novice Scout was not worth thepoints". I replied back "At 50cpu, I dont thing so".

The guy had NO idea that there was such a demand for the stuff. Educate the masses.. it helps.

Personally I like it when things are a little hard and I am forced to be creative in how I gather my resources ie, offer to buy it from others, get others to hunt for me, drop harvesters etc.. I pay up to 25cpu MAX and while other pay more, I do manage to get a nice neat little pile of meat.

So no increasing meat drops for birds is not the way to go, no sense in messing with things IMO. Personally I would like to see us get animal harvesting and/or surveying skills- but again that's just me.

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I think most harvest amounts are fine. However, a Peko Peko islarge and should drop more than 15-20 units of meat. Probably not alot more maybe 30-40 units. I have a CH on Bria and I was harvesting avian to sell to Doctors there so I had 4-0-4-0 in scout which would yeild good harvest amounts. I do agree that most other avian creatures drop pretty close to the right amount.

Cosidering the number of AFK buff bots, and general buffing Docs on servers, there is plenty of avian around.

You can get a lot of meat grouped.. grab some friends w/ scout. Bumming around talus the other day in a 9 person group, we killed rasps n' fynoks as we wandered around killing bigger stuff. 9 people looting 6 meat starts adding up fast. If they are your friends, then you get it all. Since all the stuff was pretty much 12 shot kills, we didn't even have to slow down much to mow the stuff down on our way to bigger mobs. I got over 1k avian while hunting other stuff (for hides) with friends.

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I have to say that there should be more large birds other than the peko albatross. Even if they are just as hard to kill. I for 1 don't like having to practicly beg my PA and friends to come out and hunt avian meat with me. If I get real lucky they stick around for an hour. Hunting by myself it takes all weekend to harvest 3k meat. If the albatross was a bit less rare and it had an equivalent on every planet, people might actually step up to help. Most of the time they just tell me it's too easy to kill kaadus, they get bored and wander off to an adventure planet. We just need some bigger, badder more meat dropping avians.

I think there is only 2 ATM peko Albys and those Reptilian Avian fliers.

I dunno if we will see new mobs, but there has been some talk of a lot of mobs having the "wrong" type of meat, hide, milk etc.

We may be able to squeeze some more out of this idea, if/when they get to it.


-T